The map-making process will be largely automated using software specially adapted by the USGS to create approximately 11,275 digital map quadrangles, covering the entire area of the state. Mapping in ...

Many Alaskans are well familiar with the existing USGS topo maps, which were a feat to create decades ago, Mastrodicasa said. But Alaska is big and hard to map.

Examples of new digital topographic maps depicting the Mt. McKinley area are displayed at a news conference on Sept. 3, 2013, at the U.S. Geological Survey offices in Anchorage, Alaska.

The USGS is a scientific agency that studies the landscape of the US, so they’ve been amassing data useful to hikers and ...

Late last week, the White House announced something seemingly mundane — a series of new topographic maps of the U.S.’s only Arctic state, Alaska. Ninety percent of the enormous state has now ...

Today, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NSF released 3-D topographic maps that show Alaska’s terrain in greater detail than ever before. Powered by the Blue Waters supercomputer, the ...

The three-dimensional topographic maps are based on 2-meter resolution images. The satellites captured the same location twice, 45 seconds apart, before sending them to a supercomputer which was ...

The tallest peak in North America is not as tall as previously thought. That’s according to new data from a federal and state effort to provide more detailed topographical maps of Alaska. Denali ...

Following the public release of super-detailed 3-D topographic maps of Alaska last week, the United States government plans to gradually release similar maps covering the entire Arctic by the end ...